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Wiley
February 2013
On Sale: January 29, 2013
352 pages
ISBN: 1118345878
EAN: 9781118345870
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Non-Fiction
In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank
Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate
governance expert Lawrence Cunningham chronicle the origins
of the company and its relentless pioneering of open markets
everywhere in the world. They regale readers with riveting
vignettes of how AIG grew from a modest group of insurance
enterprises in 1970 to the largest insurance company in
world history. They illustrate AIG's distinctive
entrepreneurial culture and how its outstanding employees
worldwide helped pave the road to
globalization.
- Corrects common
misconceptions about AIG that arose due to its role at the
center of the financial crisis of 2008.
- Unique
account of AIG by one of the iconic business leaders of
the twentieth century who developed close relationships with
many of the most important world leaders of the period and
helped to open markets everywhere.
- New
critical perspective on battles with N. Y. Attorney
General Eliot Spitzer and the 2008 U.S. government seizure
of AIG amid the financial crisis.
- Confidential
information shared publicly for the first
time.
The AIG Story captures an impressive
saga in business history--one of innovation, vision and
leadership at a company that was almost destroyed with a few
strokes of governmental pens. The AIG Story
carries;important lessons and implications for the U.S.,
especially its role in international affairs, its approach
to business, its legal system and its handling of financial
crises.
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